Hi all, On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 04:07:13PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > Am Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 03:39:06PM +0100 schrieb Tobias Frost: > > Well, there are established procedures in Debian that should be > > followed, for example Developers Reference §7.4. > > > > Currently we have these¹ ways to change maintainership in Debian: > > - The maintainer files an "O:" (or to some extend "RFA","RFH") bug. > > - Change through ITS > > - The MIA team completes the MIA process with the result that the > > maintainer is no longer active. (I've not seen a mail from you on this > > matter on the mia team alias) > > I admit I might have been a bit lazy about this. Shame on me. I > vaguely remember you once said that the MIA team was also a bit inactive > overworked so - maybe / hopefully I'm wrong here. I will send you > some more maintainers which I consider MIA. > > BTW, except for voting I see no activity from Shane[1] > > > - The techincal commitee. > > > > (¹ leaving out other ways that are applicable for e.g team maintained > > co-maintained, etc packages) > > IMHO the dotconf example shows that these established procedures do not > seem to be sufficient.
IMHO it does not show that. There are no long-unfixed RC bugs in dotconf. If people would like to take over long term maintenanceship of dotconf, I'd suggest these people should just talk to Shane. I personally would do that in a non-public message. Bye, Joost -- Today is a good day to turn off the computer and read a book.
